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Eight years across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
charles (charlesAI)
Product Engineer
May 2026 – Present · Berlin, Germany
- Product engineer at charles, an AI-native conversational marketing and commerce platform for consumer brands, building customer-facing product across the messaging and commerce experience.
SuitePad GmbH
Product Engineer (Frontend)
Jan 2025 – Apr 2026 · Berlin, Germany
- Frontend product engineer building and shipping features across SuitePad’s product.
Ravka Consult
Senior Product Engineer (Consulting)
Jan 2024 – Jul 2025 · Rotterdam, NL
- Pioneered BearSignals, an intelligent observability platform inspired by the academic STEAM paper. Designed a cohesive architecture with a Go ingestion engine, Python analytics layer, and React frontend for seamless stateful monitoring.
- Delivered a commercial-grade, high-throughput data pipeline with automated root cause analysis, reducing system debugging time and improving developer insight.
- Mentored junior engineers in data pipeline design and API integration best practices.
HousingAnywhere
Senior Frontend Engineer
Apr 2022 – Jan 2024 · Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Led a complete overhaul of the front-end search infrastructure using React and TypeScript, resulting in a 35% increase in search-to-booking conversion.
- Improved UI search performance by 40% through incremental prefetching and caching, reducing load time for millions of users.
- Architected and implemented a full-stack feature flagging console (React, TypeScript, Go), cutting experiment turnaround from days to minutes.
Andela
Senior Software Engineer (Contract)
May 2021 – Dec 2023 · Remote / New York, US
- Provided senior-level engineering for global clients, focusing on full-stack development, platform modernization, and scalable system design.
- SayRhino: Built an event-driven system using Sidekiq and Redis to scale post-fulfillment operations; modularized a React codebase with Tailwind CSS, reducing maintenance by 25%. Designed CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions to enhance reliability.
- Leafly Inc: Directed Ruby on Rails upgrade (2.5→3.0) improving performance and security. Built GraphQL APIs and optimized search logic, reducing backend query times by 30%. Integrated Datadog monitoring for observability.
Petra Trust
Software Engineer
Dec 2019 – Jan 2021 · Accra, Ghana
- Architected and developed Phoenix, a unified CRM system with a GraphQL API (Ruby, PostgreSQL) and responsive React UI, reducing user task completion time by 25%.
VendyAds
Frontend Engineer
Jan 2018 – Jun 2019 · Accra, Ghana
- Developed interactive campaign management dashboards with React and Redux, improving analytics responsiveness and client satisfaction.